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Dr. Katherine Lehmann, President of Women's Missionary Conference
 Katherine Lehmann was elected president of
the Women’s Missionary Conference of the Joint Synod of Ohio in 1921.
She edited the first “Women’s Department” in the Lutheran Standard, and
later served as advisory member to the Board of Foreign Missions of the
American Lutheran Church. In addition, Dr. Lehmann chaired the five
member Joint Committee on Merger for the American Lutheran Church
Women’s Missionary Federation in 1931, and was elected president. She
served the two societies for a total of 29 years.
Dr. Lehmann once described an early
meeting of the missionary conference as a “School of Prophets…in which
our women upset all time-honored precedents and prejudices, and raised
their voices in counsel and debate, discussing most ably the great
missionary problems confronting our Church.”
Pictured (left to right) at a meeting of
the Board of Foreign Missions of the American Lutheran Church in the
1930’s are Prof. Paul H. Buehring, board chair, Dr. Katherine Lehmann,
Mr. William Altman, Rev. Theo G. Klinksick, Rev. Edward W. Schramm,
board secretary, Rev. August Frederick Boerger and Dr. C.V. Sheatsley,
secretary of the India Section.
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